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Old 03-21-2010
Question Can sed be used to insert data at specific column?

I'm trying to use sed to insert data at a specific column, let's say my data looks like this:

0553 1828
0552 1829
0550 1829
0549 1830
0548 1831

what I want is this:

timein 0553 timeout 1828
timein 0552 timeout 1829
timein 0550 timeout 1829
timein 0549 timeout 1830
timein 0548 timeout 1831

So inserting at a beginning of a line is easy, that would be:

cat inputfile | sed 's/^/timein /g' > outputfile

it's inserting the "timeout" that throwing me. Any help would be appreciated.
 

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Jifty::DBI::Handle::SQLite(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Jifty::DBI::Handle::SQLite(3pm)

NAME
Jifty::DBI::Handle::SQLite -- A SQLite specific Handle object SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
This module provides a subclass of Jifty::DBI::Handle that compensates for some of the idiosyncrasies of SQLite. METHODS
database_version Returns the version of the SQLite library which is used, e.g., "2.8.0". SQLite can only return short variant. insert Takes a table name as the first argument and assumes that the rest of the arguments are an array of key-value pairs to be inserted. If the insert succeeds, returns the id of the insert, otherwise, returns a Class::ReturnValue object with the error reported. case_sensitive Returns 1, since SQLite's searches are case sensitive by default. Note, however, SQLite's "like" operator is case insensitive. distinct_count STATEMENTREF takes an incomplete SQL SELECT statement and massages it to return a DISTINCT result count rename_column ( table => $table, column => $old_column, to => $new_column ) rename column AUTHOR
Jesse Vincent, jesse@fsck.com SEE ALSO
perl(1), Jifty::DBI perl v5.14.2 2010-09-21 Jifty::DBI::Handle::SQLite(3pm)
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